The team moved into position. Every Evolver found their assigned cover and went silent. The floating island's wind was the only sound left.
Moon stood at the cave entrance alone. He looked at the intertwined network of runes one final time, then placed the beast corpses he had been saving inside. He arranged them carefully throughout the cave, ensuring the bodies were spread across the blast zone. Then he added the corpses of the prisoners who had been beyond saving, the ones whose minds had been too far gone.
He stepped out, walked to a safe distance.
~BOOM~ ~BOOM~ ~BOOM~
Dozens of explosions detonated at once as the timer reached its end. The cave collapsed inward before erupting outward, sending a column of fire and smoke up in the sky. Dirt and rock flew in every direction. The shockwave flattened the grass in a thirty-meter radius and shook the ground hard enough to crack the stone beneath it.
The sound of the explosions carried for kilometers.
